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1. Grants

   Grants is a city in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 9,182 at the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Cibola County. Grants began as a railroad camp in the 1880s, when three Canadian brothers – Angus A. Grant, John R. Grant, and Lewis A. Grant – were awarded a contract to build a section of the new Atlantic and Pacific Railroad through the region. The Grant brothers' camp was first called Grants Camp, then Grants Station, and finally Grants. The new city enveloped the existing colonial New Mexican settlement of Los Alamitos and grew along the tracks of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. The town prospered as a result of railroad logging in the nearby Zuni Mountains, and it served as a section point for the Atlantic and Pacific, which became part of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad empire. The Zuni Mountain Railroad short line had a roundhouse in town and housed workers in a small community named Breecetown. Timber from the Zuni Mountains was shipped to Albuquerque where a large sawmill converted the timber to wood products that were sold around the west. After the decline of logging in the 1930s, Grants gained fame as the "carrot capital" of the United States. Agriculture was aided by the creation of Bluewater Reservoir, and the region's volcanic soils provided ideal conditions for farming. Grants also benefited from its location on U.S. Route 66, which brought tourists and travelers and the businesses that catered to them.

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   Rank popularity for the word 'grants' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4715

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'grants' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4141

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grants in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of grants in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of grants in a Sentence

1. Horace:

   Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

2. Johann von Goethe:

   Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

3. Daniel Webster:

   God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

4. Anthony Kennedy:

   They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

5. Gary Ridley:

   We see these grants as improving public safety, much like you spend money on improving a highway.

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